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The Super Troopers Sequel of Your Dreams is Happening

A Super Troopers sequel is in the works and rest assured: everyone will have mustaches.

“Everybody who had a mustache in the first one will grow it back,” Super Troopers star and writer Steve Lemme told UsWeekly. “Now the guys who didn't grow mustaches for the first one want to have a mustache. We're making them earn it, not sure how we'll haze them, but they better be prepared.”

Fans have been waiting for almost 15 years for a shenanigans-filled sequel to the stoner cop comedy. According to Lemme, it is finally happening—but they may need a little help from fans. The Broken Lizard comedy troupe member said the sequel had been delayed over funding and legal issues. Now that the legal trouble has been resolved, the troupe is looking to finish financing the film, which will be distributed by Fox Searchlight. The group has raised close to $27 million so far, but Lemme said they may need to turn to crowd-funding site Kickstarter to get them over the finish line.

“The fans have been asking for it for a while, but we were finally able to package everything together,” Lemme told UsWeekly on Friday. “Fox is going to distribute the film, but we needed to raise the money for it, with a minimum budget of $27 million, which we've just about raised. There may be a Kickstarter launched to raise the last little bit.”

Fans of the cult classic will undoubtedly ante up to fund the further adventures of the five hilariously hapless Vermont state troopers in the long-awaited sequel. Lemme, who starred and co-wrote in the original Super Troopers along with his Broken Lizard comedy troupe brethren Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske, said that the biggest plot hurdle the group faced was trying to figure out how to top the infamous opening scene of the 2001 original. “I think it's one of the more unique and interesting stories I've seen in awhile,” Lemme said. “But the movie picks up pretty much where we left off in the first one. It's a few years later. The biggest difficulty was trying to top that opening scene, which so many people have complimented us on. I think we've done it.”

Pre-production is supposed to kick off next month and the sequel is expected to start filming in early 2015.